AI files

[Hrothgar]

I've found info on how to modify everything in SEIV, except the AI files. Probably because they're so simple any moron ought to be able to do it; however, THIS moron is having trouble.

I really would like to hear anything anyone cares to post about the topic, but, specifically, I've run into one problem that I thought even I could figure out on my own--fat chance! I'm trying to make a race, and I wanted to change the default Fleet formation, both so that the AI would use something more effective than "Arrow" [is there anyhing that isn't?], and so that, when I'm playing the race, I wouldn't always have to change the fleet formation/strategy everytime I made a new fleet.

I found the lines in the AI_Fleet file that establish what the default formation and strategy will be, and changed them, but, my race still defaults to "Arrow" and "Optimal Weapons Range." It does so when I'm playing them, and, when I let the AI run them in order to test how they're doing, I'll still see them in Arrow formation whenever there's combat between them and me.

Anyone have any ideas about what I might be doing wrong, or any suggestions about other things involoved in making AI files?

Thanks.